The Guardian: TB kills three people every minute — the world must wake up to this pandemic Jessica Potter, research fellow at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at the Blizzard Institute at Queen Mary University of London “…The global TB pandemic has been fueled by disregard: political…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Giving Birth in Ukraine: So Different From My Parents’ Experience Olya Myrtsalo, a senior development and communication officer in USAID’s regional mission for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, writes about the USAID Maternal and Infant Health Project, which ran from 2003 to 2012 in the region.…

NPR: Controversy Erupts In Russia Over Report On Female Genital Mutilation “It started with a report and erupted into a controversy involving a mufti, a Russian Orthodox priest, and a rabbi. The subject: female genital mutilation. On Aug. 15, the Russian Justice Initiative issued a report called ‘Production of Genital…

The Lancet: Gaps remain in Russia’s response to HIV/AIDS “…If action isn’t taken to curb the current annual growth rate of 10-12 percent, [the head of Russia’s Federal AIDS Centre, Vadim Pokrovksy,] predicts that there will be two million people diagnosed as HIV-positive by 2020. … And it seems that…

Devex: New DfID head divides U.K. aid community over trade focus “…Many breathed a sigh of relief last week when [Prime Minister Theresa] May publicly confirmed her government’s commitment to spending 0.7 percent of gross national income on aid — dispelling rumors that the aid budget worth 11 billion pounds…

Huffington Post: Prince Harry’s Live HIV Test Had A Major Impact “…Orders for a new, free at-home HIV test spiked five times higher after Prince Harry underwent an HIV test in video streamed live on Facebook…” (Feldman, 7/27).

New York Times: Woman With Zika Virus in Spain Gives Birth to Baby With Microcephaly “A woman infected with the Zika virus gave birth on Monday to a baby with microcephaly in Barcelona, in what is probably the first case of its kind in Europe, according to the hospital where…

EurActiv: Commission must prioritize access to contraception in development policy Heidi Hautala, Finnish Green MEP in the Greens/European Free Alliance group, and co-chair of the European Parliament Working Group on Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, and Development (EPWG) “…[T]he international community can make an enormous difference in increasing access to family planning…

Devex: What DfID appointment and new PM’s voting record tell us about ‘May-era aid’ “…With the exception of the Girl Summit, [British Prime Minister Theresa] May has rarely taken a stand on aid-related issues, and little is known about how May’s aid agenda compares to former Prime Minister David Cameron’s…

Foreign Policy: Brexit is a Global Health Risk Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations “…[The] new sense of nationalism that fueled Brexit, or, to coin a mouthful of a term, anti-globalizationism, poses an existential threat to an array of initiatives that have saved…